Printing to PDF

[Ghoto]

When I print to PDF in Office X for Mac apps, the files get huge. Any
idea why this is happening?
Thanks.

 

[Tim Murray]

Plese see other thread.

 

[Walt Basil]

When I print to PDF in Office X for Mac apps, the files get huge. Any
idea why this is happening?
Thanks.

Ghoto,

I think one reason is because PDF is more or less an image format. Yes it
handles text, but in some slick way it converges both text and graphics into
one "image."

So when I take a simple 32k Word document, and print it out using "save as
PDF" it becomes 48k. A word document is only showing you the text at the
least, with some formatting code to define font, size, tables and such. It
relies on Word to interpret these codes and display your document. When you
save it as a PDF, you are actually saving everything in an image type. PDFs
may not become smaller until you actually take a huge Office file and make
it a PDF.

Walt
http://www.basilweb.net
--
Email me at walt at basilweb dot net

Current setup:
Palm m515,
Apple iBook 700 Combo
640 Megs RAM, Mac OS X 10.3.2
MS Office:mac v.X SR1 10.1.5

 

[Ghoto]

Thanks very much.

-----Original Message-----


Ghoto,

I think one reason is because PDF is more or less an image format. Yes it
handles text, but in some slick way it converges both text and graphics into
one "image."

So when I take a simple 32k Word document, and print it out using "save as
PDF" it becomes 48k. A word document is only showing you the text at the
least, with some formatting code to define font, size, tables and such. It
relies on Word to interpret these codes and display your document. When you
save it as a PDF, you are actually saving everything in an image type. PDFs
may not become smaller until you actually take a huge Office file and make
it a PDF.

Walt
http://www.basilweb.net
--
Email me at walt at basilweb dot net

Current setup:
Palm m515,
Apple iBook 700 Combo
640 Megs RAM, Mac OS X 10.3.2
MS Office:mac v.X SR1 10.1.5

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